at 555-6572.Granted, Alicia was getting pretty desperate, but it wasn’t just her wallet that was intrigued by this ad. In fact, it wasn’t her wallet at all, because there wasn’t a price mentioned, which should have been the first thing to raise warning bells. She circled it and punched the numbers into her cell before she could talk herself out of it.A woman’s voice answered almost immediately, and was nothing if not no nonsense. “Yes?”Suddenly shy about the call and what it might entail, she stumbled over her words. “I – uh, I w- was calling about the – uh- the ad that y- you had in the paper for – uh – the room?”The voice on the other end softened somewhat. “Oh, yes.”“Is it still available?”“The most important thing is that you must be over eighteen. And I’m very selective about who I allow to stay in my home.”That had Alicia immediately thinking that, whatever the restrictions were, they would apply to her, and she’d be out of the running. “I’m over eighteen,”
